Happy Birthday Tyner Blain!

We’re taking the day off to tip back a cold one and celebrate a great year as a community! Tip a glass with us, and thanks for being here!

History

Tyner Blain was formed in May 2005, and we started the blog on Nov 24th 2005. New to the whole blogging thing, we started out with a free site on WordPress, realized that we had an opportunity to create a great community, and moved everything to our own domain in January 2006.

Since then, we’ve published over 300 articles, covering topics throughout the software development life cycle, with a common theme – delivering software product success. We hope you’ve enjoyed them, and thanks to all who have contributed to the fantastic conversations that have started in the comments on many of the posts. We’re not going anywhere, and hope you aren’t either.Your Favorite Posts

When we look back at the stats, here are the posts that have received the most page views:

Thanks to everyone who has read, commented on, contributed to, inspired, linked to, criticised, or otherwise been involved in everything we do here. You can’t imagine how appreciated it has been, is, and will continue to be. Thank you!

International

The top 10 (of 170+) countries from which our visitors read Tyner Blain:

United States of America ( 63%)

Republic of Korea (3%)

Brazil (2.7%)

India (2.2%)

United Kingdom (2.1%)

Canada (1.9%)

Taiwan (1.4%)

Thailand (1.2%)

Japan (1.1%)

Germany (1%)

If you want your country to make it to the top ten for next year, spread the word :)

Big Numbers

The surprising and humbling stuff…

Global reach with readers from over 170 countries.

Over 300 links from other bloggers according to Technorati.

Over 400 comments from the awesome people who are part of our community.

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Who Should Read Tyner Blain?

These articles are written primarily for product managers. Everyone trying to create great products can find something of use to them here. Hopefully they are helping you with thinking, doing, and learning. Welcome aboard!